It's all in the hyphen.

"Bird eating flowers" denotes a bird that is eating flowers, whereas
"bird-eating flowers" denotes flowers that eat birds.

Hal Opperman
Medina, Washington
hal at catharus.net

On 4/14/06 9:41 AM, "Wayne C. Weber" <contopus at telus.net> wrote:

> I know that the header of your message was supposed to be
> "birds eating flowers", not "bird eating flowers". Nevertheless, it gave me
> a bit of a start.
>
> Just what kind of flowers were those bird-eating flowers?